MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2619, 10 July 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before His Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. James Robertson was fined 40s or 48 hours’ imprisonment ; Ewen M'Laughlin, having been looked up since Saturday, was discharged with a caution ; John M'Guire, Charles Mathew, and Henry M'Cullooh were each fined 20s or 48 hours’ imprisonment. MINOR OFFENCE. Henry M'Culloch, for damaging Constable Nicholson’s uniform, was mulcted in the sum of 20s ; and for resisting the constable in the discharge of his duty, in a further sum of 20s. William Harper, charged with disorderly conduct, was let off with a caution. A charge ef disobedience of orders preferred by the Captain of the schooner Mary Van Every against James Robertson, was dismissed, it transpiring that there was no offence, inasmuch as the apt complained had been committed after the man had been discharged. Alfred Jewitt was charged with' cruelly illtreating a horse. It appeared front the evidence that the defendant had made his horse draw a weight of 2 tons 11 cwt. He was fined 40 1. SHOP-LIFTINO. Ellen White, an elderly woman, was charged with stealing a pair of boots from the shop-door of Mr M'Landres?, Princes street, on Saturday evening. The evidence was very clear, she having been detected in the act by Detective Farrell. It appeared that she had been before the Court on two previous occasions charged with a similar offence, but had been let off on account of her family. She was seueeßced to three months’hard labor. OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. George Brunton was fined 2s 6d for leaving Ins cab ; and James Stable 2s 6d and costs, for leaving Lis horses and drays unattended. Charges of allowing a chimney to take fire, and of neglecting to place a lamp over building materials, preferred against Albert Walki r and Alexander Burt, were dismissed with a caution.